by Dawn Malcolm | Sep 29, 2021 | Stories
The rain was beating against the window and as I squinted looking through I could see the trees bending in the storm and I wondered what damage may remain once the storm passed. It was Good Friday, 2012 and I was getting the last laundry and packing done for the...
by Dawn Malcolm | Aug 28, 2021 | Stories
Life in African villages. Even the youngest have work to do. Western life is often far removed from what most of the rest of the world experiences. It is easy to think of other people’s lives being similar to our own until we really see how they live. I would...
by Dawn Malcolm | Nov 18, 2020 | Project Updates
We are looking at options for Lighting the Path to offer additional business classes to assist people who would like to learn how to start their own small business. With COVID and restrictions, we are not doing classes at this time, but will resume at some point....
by Dawn Malcolm | Feb 15, 2019 | Stories
In the village of Kimini in remote Burkina Faso women have been empowered and their lives are forever changed for the better. Lighting the Path has educated these women in business and production skills to form a small enterprise. They learned how to make soap, how...
by Dawn Malcolm | Feb 5, 2019 | Project Updates
The Women’s Aid Fund was established when one of the women we were working with needed a prosthetic arm. There was no way she could afford this and we saw that this would make a huge difference in her quality of life. Medical and special needs hinder the...
